Inking-pad



B. B. HILL.

(No Model.)

INKING PAD.

No. 352.323. S Patenfied Nov. 9, 1886.

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ilNrrEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN HILL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

lNKlNG-PAD.

EPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,323, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed June 17, 1884. Serial No. 135,148. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN BfHILL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Inking-Pads, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to that class of inking-pads in which there is a mass of absorbent material having a thin covering of woven fabric; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a pad inclosed in its box; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of a pad detached. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show sections of various modifications of the frame.

A represents the box or case, which may be of the shape shown or of any other convenient or desired form, and B is a light frame, which may be of any suitable material; but I prefer to make it of sheet-tin, with a projecting flange, b, at top, as shown in Fig. 2. Within this frame, at O, is a layer of some good absorbent material, preferably of felt, and around the whole is a covering, D, of some thinner fabric-such as a closely-woven cotton cloth with a satin finisl1-which is secured in place by cementing, sewing, or in any other convenient way.

In lieu of the form of frame shown in Fig. 2, the frame may be of plain flat wire, as shown in Fig. 3, or it may be curved in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 4, or have a flange both at top and bottom, as shown in Fig. 5. When made as shown in Fig. 4, the curved-over edges will serve the same purpose to a considerable extent as the flanges shown in Figs. 2 and5.

By this construction a very compact inkingpad is formed that can be readily and cheaply made, and can never get out of order, and can be readily inked by dropping a few drops of ink over its surface, for any ink dropped on the surface is readily absorbed by the felt and is gradually given off to the stamp applied to the surface of the pad..

It will be observed that the padas shown in Fig. 2 is complete in itself as an article of manufacture, and that it can be readily put up in the form shown in that figure and supplied to stamp-dealers, who maypnt'them in any suitable box or pad-receptacle to suit their trade or the fancy of their customers.

I prefer the form of frame shown in Fig. 2, because the flange b serves to keep the edges of the felt from rising and working above the top of the frame B.

I am aware that it is not new to use a metallic ring to keep a covering of cloth in position over an inking-pad, and therefore do not claim this, broadly. I regard my pad as essentially different from the device referred to, for that is incomplete without the box, whereas mine is complete with or without the box, and eanbe set into any case or box that is large enough to contain it, whether it be of the exact size or not.

I am also aware that a pad has been made consisting of a wooden block having a cushion on its top covered with woven material, which block and cushion were forced into an open-bottomed base, so as to hold the covering between the sidesof the base and the block, which block and base, being covered with a paper bottom, are not impervious, and

I make no claim to this construction, as it has neither my close-bottomed box nor a frame capable of receiving the filling.

I am also aware, that a pad consisting of pieces of felt or cloth has been set into a close bottomed box, and make no claim to such construction.

'What Iclaim as new is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, an ink-- ing-pad having a filling, an inclosingframe therefor, and a flexible covering passing over the top of the filling and under both frame forms the double function of holding the ink .with which the filling is saturated and secnn 'In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature, in ing the, covering 0n the frame, substantiallyas presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of described. June, 1884.

3. In an inking-pad, a frame inclosing the BENJAMIN B. HILL. 5 filling and having a. projection, b, to keep said Witnesses:

filling from rising above the frame, substan- WILLIAM S. TOLAND, tially as described. M. A. EISEN. 

